Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
Faced with inordinate delays in their execution, the power ministry has suggested Arunachal Pradesh to scrap as many as half the nearly 100 hydroelectric projects awarded to private and state-run developers in the state, a senior ministry official said. At the same time, the ministry has also offered assistance to …
The ministry of road transport and highways has objected to the power ministry's recently-notified fuel efficiency norms for passenger vehicles, reflecting the concerns of India's automobile industry that new emission levels are being stipulated a year ahead of the deadline that had been agreed. The road transport ministry has asked …
The power ministry is framing guidelines for the implementation of local area development fund (LADF) to ensure state governments pass on the intended monetary benefits to people affected by hydel projects. The Centre's revenue from the sale of 1% free power to discoms goes to the LADF. (The government doesn't …
The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and the ministry of power have yet again failed to file their replies before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Tuesday on NHPC's Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Power (LSHEP) dam project. In the last hearing, the tribunal asked all respondents - state governments …
New Delhi, March 25: Term it a lackluster attitude being adopted by the two central ministries (Ministry of Environment and Forests, and Ministry of Power), their inability to submit report on the 2000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydro Power project have once again compelled the National Green Tribunal (NGT) to further …
THE empowered group of ministers (EGoM) for hydel power projects in Arunachal Pradesh will find it tough to get the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) on board for the proposed all-at-a-time clearance mechanism for supporting infrastructure projects. According to sources, at the upcoming EGoM meeting the power ministry will …
State–owned ONGC has finally agreed to supply natural gas to 101–MW capacity Monarchak power plant that is being set up by government–run NEEPCO in western Tripura, senior officials said here on Sunday. “We would start supplying gas to Monarchak power plant from this year end. We need seven to eight …
Thermal power producers have yet again missed the 100% fly ash utilisation target set by the environment ministry, reporting underutilisation for the third straight year amid policy confusion over dumping of the effluent. Although the proportion of fly ash utilisation in 2012-13 increased by 3% from a year ago, the …
De-centralised Micro Grids in India - a presentation by Gram Oorja at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2014: Energy Access and Renewable Energy, February 27-28, 2014, New Delhi.
BHOPAL: Narsinghpur will become energy capital of Madhya Pradesh, announced Union minister for power Jyotiraditya Scindia at Gadarwara on Wednesday while laying the foundation stone of NTPC's 800X2 (1600 MW) Gadarwara Super thermal power project, which shall have ultimate capacity of 3200MW with total investment of Rs 25,000 crores. Scindia …
It will cover southern, western districts The Rs.1,593-crore Green Energy Corridors project of the Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation (TANTRANSCO) will be the State’s first power project to be funded by the KfW, a German development bank. Announced in the State budget tabled in the Assembly a few days ago, the …
The power ministry has proposed that planned subsidy for gas-based power plants be restricted to administered price mechanism (APM) gas. This means if a power plant opts for other sources, such as non-APM gas and imported R-LNG, along with APM gas, the monetary benefits to the discom buying power would …
The Power Ministry has moved a note before the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) with a proposal for a Rs. 6,000-crore subsidy for distribution companies and a financial restructuring package to improve the viability and utilisation of stranded gas-based power projects across the country. The subsidy component would compensate …
Struggle to keep 25000 MW of gas-based power capacity alive The Finance Ministry has rejected the Power Ministry’s proposal for a nearly Rs.25,000-crore subsidy cushion and instead asked it to work on gas price pooling and pass on the tariff to distribution companies (discoms) or consumers. The Finance Ministry’s move …
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) will provide Rs 350-crore incentive to the manufactures of high energy efficient fans in the country. The BEE was created under the Ministry of Power, Government of India, under the provisions of the Energy Conservation Act. The nodal agency is encouraging the manufacturers of …
The Manmohan Singh government has had to abandon its bid to facilitate mining in at least a handful of a hundred-odd coal blocks being scanned by the Supreme Court since September 2012. The setback to the Centre’s plans to start production in coal blocks allotted to private firms not being …
The Planning Commission has junked a proposal by power producers to mandate Coal India act as a banker for surplus coal. Instead, it has sought the Union Cabinet’s approval in allowing the holders of captive mines to transfer their surplus produce to other power, steel and cement utilities. Conceding that …
There were 11 companies which were not recommended by Power Ministry but selected by screening committee The coal ministry has sought information from companies on the progress of 61 captive coal blocks allocated to them. The blocks are being reviewed for lapses and the companies have been given three-weeks time …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has issued notices to the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), ministry of power, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) and the state governments of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh on the issue of releasing minimum sustenance water at the rate of 450 cumecs from the Lower …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), on Thursday, relaxed the criteria for power generation projects to qualify as mega power projects. This will qualify 15 additional projects for the benefits under the mega power project policy. “To avail of the benefits under the (Mega Power) policy, the developer must …
